Life is a journey, often a short
one, and always uncertain. But there is another journey. The believer is traveling through
a waste, howling wilderness, to another and a glorious region,
where ineffable delight and happiness await us. The road is narrow,
the entrance straight, so straight that thousands miss it and perish
in the wilderness. But true believers, under the
teaching and convoy of the Holy Spirit, find it and walk in it. The King, in his infinite love
and compassion, has made a hedge about them, separating and defending
them from the many beasts of prey which lurk around them.
And although they hear their howlings and behold their threatenings,
they are safe from their power. But their strongest foe is within
themselves, a heart deceitful above all things and desperately
wicked. From this there is no escape
but by constant watchfulness and earnest cries to their best
friend and guide for protection. Were it not for this faithful
guide, How often, discouraged by reason of the way, Would they
turn back? But he watches over them by night
and by day, Strengthens them when weak, upholds them when
falling, encourages them when cast down, defends them when
attacked, provides for them when in need, leads them by living
streams, and causes them there to lie down in pleasant pastures
and on sunny banks. And as they advance, they obtain
brighter views of the good land they are nearing. And they long
to see the king in his beauty, And the land that is yet very
far off, And to meet those that have already arrived On that
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